Chrome-remote-interface: correct way to block request

[hbakhtiyor]

what's the correct way to block ads? i saw your example, but also there are Network.setBlockedURLs,

what's your recommendation for blocking ads? using your example or Network.setBlockedURLs?

[cyrus-and]

I guess whatever works for you, you can think of Network.setBlockedURLs as a much simpler interface with respect to Network.setRequestInterception. The latter might be overkill if you just need to block a set of resources by URL while it might be OK if you need to support more advanced conditions based on the whole request instead of just the URL.

[hbakhtiyor]

i'll be use the datasets to block ads, which methods suitable for such big datasets?

    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts",
    "https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains",
    "http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts",
    "https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist",
    "https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt",
    "https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt",
    "https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt",
   "http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt"

[cyrus-and]

My guess is that Network.setBlockedURLs might be the best choice, but you should really try both and measure the performance to properly compare the two methods.

[gsouf]

@cyrus-and how does Network.setBlockedURLs scales with a big list of urls to block? Would that introduce any overhead in the network performances if I had 20, 100, 1000, more...paterns blocked?

[cyrus-and]

@gsouf honestly I have no idea, your best bet is to measure it. You might also want to ask this here.

[gsouf]

@cyrus-and if you are interested here we got an answer https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chrome-debugging-protocol/SUZ7LHZlh1E/l0DZtX_PDAAJ

[cyrus-and]

@gsouf got it thank you!